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quantum myths

Four real, well-tested pieces of quantum physics get borrowed constantly by popular spirituality, stretched past what they actually say. Superposition doesn't mean you can manifest any outcome you choose. The uncertainty principle doesn't mean "everything is uncertain, so anything is possible." "Observation collapses reality" means a physical interaction happened, not that a mind was watching. And entanglement carries no message, and falls apart almost instantly in anything as warm as a human body — it doesn't explain telepathy.

A rule of thumb: if a claim doesn't survive swapping the physics term back to its plain-English meaning, it's borrowing vocabulary, not making a physical argument. None of this makes the real questions less interesting — it just means the case for them has to be made honestly, on its own terms, not smuggled in wearing a lab coat it hasn't earned.